Cover device for barrels and the like



June 12, 1923. 1,458,504

P. SMITH COVER DEVICE FOR BARRELS AND THE LIKE Filed Nov. 5, 1921 I UT llll

W/T/VESS Patented June 12, 1923.

stares PETER SMITH, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

COVER DEVICE FOR BAERELS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed November To all whom it may con-0cm:

Be it known that 1, PETER Sinr ii, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Cover Devices for Bar rels and the like, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates particularly to removable cover devices for barrels and. the like receptacles into which dusty substances, such as ashes, are to be sliovelled and which have an. upright cowl with a lateral opening therein and a pendant swinging damper or door which normally closes the opening and is adapted to be pushed away from the same by the shovel to admit the contents of the latter. I H

According to my invention the device is formed with a cowl which as to its major upper portion is substantially rectangular in plan, thus to substantially conform with the contour of the bowl of an ordinary shovelein tered int-o the cowl'througha, lateral opening therein, and which as'to its lower portion is formed funnel-shaped; and with a base-plate (preferably having a downward circumferential rim or flange) which has a relatively limited aperture into which the base of the funnel-shaped part ofthe cowl is fitted. Thus, while theaperture may be made quite small relatively to the diameter of the base-plate, thereby to adapt the device to a wide range in diametersof barrels, the

.. cowl is formed toreceive without interference a considerable part of the shovel bowl and so facilitatethe discharge, without spilling, of the contents 'of the shovel into the Further, the damper is peculiarly formed and supported. That is to say, given the mouth or receiving opening in the upright wall of a body structure, (as the cowl), the damper is-formed of a plate pivoted within said structure on a horizontal axis at the upper part of the'plate andnear the inner face of the wall, said plate being bent so that its upper portion is pitched upwardly, and the remainder or lower portion thereof is pitched downwardly, toward said wall; thus the center of gravity of'the damper is back of its pivoting axis and the damper is self-closing. Preferably the said lower portion of the damper is planiform and represents its major part,so that the shovel will obtain an unobstructed sliding contact there- 5,1921. Serial No. 513,123.

v Figure 3 IS a plan showing the cowl in if horizontal section. v

The device is formed for the most part of sheet metal. A designates the base plate and B the cowl.

The base plate is formed by a disk a having a depending flange or rim 6 andalso having a central circular aperture 0; The opening is small relatively to the diameter of the disk (4 so that the base platemay rest on barrels which range widely in diameter. The base plate is shown resting on a barrel in Fig. 2, which is indicated at C.

The cowl B has its major upper portion substantially rectangular in plan and its lower portion funnel-shaped and is constructed as follows: Its body portion-is formed of four sheets d e e and The sheet d is in the blank substantially rectangular The sheets e 6 are also substantially rectangular excepting that one, corner of each is removed and each sheet is formed with curved edge e The sheet 7 is also,

substantially rectangular. The sheets 6 e form the side walls of the body structure and the sheet (Z forms the back thereof, the latter lyin from the horizontal plane marked 9 g in ig. 2 upwardly in contact-with the back edges, the curved edges 6 and the top edges of the sheets 6 e and having its lateral edges from saidplanetg g upwardly bent off as angular flanges e which are soldered to the sheets 6 c. The upper edge portion (Z of the sheet cl extends beyond the front edges of the sheets e c, which latter have forward flanges 6 and the flange cl is bent downwardly and the-flanges retinwardly in perpendicular relation to the re-. spective walls (Z and e e, the flanges e e being overlapped by and riveted to the flange d, as at h. The upper edge portion ofthe sheet 7 is overlapped by the lower ends of the flanges e? and riveted thereto, as at 2'. Thus the flanges d .t and wall 7 llt) form the mouth or opening 5 if the cowl,

the same being rectangular in form. Below the plane 9 g is the funnel-shaped portion of the cowl, the same being formed by suit-- ably overlapping the lateral edge portions of the wall f and the lateral lower edge portions of the wall (Z with respect to the forward and rearward lower edge portions of the sheets 6 e, the thuslapped portions being securedtogether by rivets/ c.

The cowl B'is secured on thebase plateA by turning downwardly the edge a of the latte-r around the aperture 0 therein, fitting the lower edge of the funnel-shaped portion of the cowl into the aperture and then told ing the edge of the fui'inehsha'ped portion back on the edge or the aperture; if desired the seam thus formed may also be soldered.

Thus while the base of the device adapted to various sizeso't' barrels, its aperture 0 being formed as small as necessary for that purpose, the upper part of the cowl is not only of ample size but of proper shape to conform with the plan of a. shovel bowl "thrust thereinto through its mouth j, which is desirable in order to avoid disturbing and possibly spilling the ashes outside of the cowl.

For keeping the dust from flying about the cowl is' provided with a sell closing damper or door constructed and arranged as follows: There is a horizontal pivotbar Z arranged in the walls @"6 above the opening j and close to the front wall of the cowl formed by d 6* e and f. Pivotedin pendent relation to this bar is the damper m. This dam-peris formed by a sheet or'plate which is bentso that its'upper portion m is pitched upwardly, and the remainder or lower portion m is oitche d downwardly, to ward said front wal in the preferred construction the portion m represents the major portion of the damper and it and the portion m" are pl'aniforni, so that an angle exists at m Also in the preferred construction portions' m and m have in the blank lateral wings m and m which are bent forward into perpendicular relation to said portions, the flanges m and m at each side of the dam oer overla hin each other and bein l l a: r;

secured together by y a rivet m. These flanges have a front rectilineal edge m The pivot 01": the damper on the pin Z may be formed by bending the upper edge of the sheetm around the pin, as at m The lower edge of the sheet forming the damper may )e turned on, as at m to bear fl'atwise against the upper edge of the sheet f which is shown bent downwardly and inwardly at an in- Cline, a sjat f in Fig. 2. n is a handle or bail attached to the top of the wall 4! of the cowl.

It will be understood that in use the user thrusts the loaded shovel bowl against the damper and into the cowl, the damper swinging back, the shovel being then tilted to allow its contents to fall into the barrel;

whereupon on removal of the shovel the damper rcsumesits closed position (shown by full lines in Fig. 2) because on account of its described construction its center of gravity is back of the pivot Z. By forming the lower downwardly and forwardly pitched portion of the damper planiform and making it the major portion of the damper the shovel has an unobstructed sliding cont-act therewith.

Havin thus fully described my invention,

what I cl aim as new and Letters Patent is 1. A sheet-metal cover device including, in combination, a base-plate having an aperture therein, and a cowl upstanding from the base-plate and having the major upperportion thereof rectangular in plan and the lower portion thereof funnel-shaped and fitted at itsbase to the aperture in the baseplate, said upper portion having a lateral opening approximating in width and height the width and height of said major upper portion of the cowl.

2. A sheet-metal cover device including, in combination, with a base plate having an aperture therein, a cowl, said cowl including upstanding opposite side walls having back, top, bottom and front edges,a third upstandin wall joined to the back edges of the side wills and extending over the latter forwarolly and joined to their top edges, said side walls having frontal inturned flanges extending approximately from their top edges to points short of their bottom edges and the top wall having adownturned' fronta'l flange overlapping and secured to the desire to secure by other flanges, afourth upstanding wall having its top'portion secured to the lower ends of the flanges of the'si'de' walls and forming with said flanges and the said flange of the third wall the mouth of the cowl, the lower portions of said side walls forming with the fourth wall and the lower portion of the third wall afun'nel shaped cowl base and having their lateral portions overlapping and secured to lateral portions of said third and fourth walls, and the lower edge of the cowl base being secured to the base plate around the aperture therein.

3. In combination, with abod'y structure having an upright wall formed with a receiving opening-therein, a substantially rectai'rgular plate forming a damper for the opening and arranged wholly within said structure and pivoted therein ona horizontalaxis parallel with one edge of the plate'and near the inner faceof said wall, said plate being bent so-that its upper portion is pitched upwardly, and the remainder thereof pitched downwardly, toward said wall, and said a and reaching from said portions towardsaid wall and having its top and bottom edges a substantially recfor the opening and pivoted in said structure on a horizontal axis parallel with one edge of the plate, said plate being bent so that its upper Witha bodystriioture Wardly and; outwardly,

formed with a reportion is pitched upwardly and the remainder thereofpitehed downabove and below the bend having lateral and ontwardly and the portions outwardly projecting flanges at both sides thereof, th flanges at each side overlapping each other and being secured together.

In testimony whereof I PETER SMITH.

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